William
Benjamin Neal, the son of William Benjamin Neal, Sr. and
Marion Laird McGinnes, was born in Wilmington, Delaware.
His family has resided in Delaware for more than 250
years. Mr. Neal graduated magna cum laude from
Grove City College with
a Bachelor of Arts degree, received a Master of Arts in
Teaching Degree from
Harvard University, and
was a Taft Fellow at the
University of Delaware.

During the
Korean War, he served in the U.S. Air Force as a senior
personnel specialist. He was Chairman of the
History Department at Pierre S. du Pont High School for
many years.

Memberships
* National Gavel Society
* Swedish Colonial Society (Honorary Governor)
* National Society Sons of the American Revolution
(Three terms
Genealogist General and recipient of the Minuteman Award; former
President of the Delaware Society; Delaware Society Registrar for
the
past decade; Founder and former President of the Major Peter
Jaquett
Chapter)
* General Society Sons of the Revolution (member of the
Pennsylvania
Society)
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (Camp,
Maryland Department
Commander and National Historian)
* Saint Andrews Society of Philadelphia
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* Colonial Order of the Acorn
* Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
* General Society of the War of 1812 (Member of the
Pennsylvania and
Maryland Societies; Organizing State President of the Delaware
Society)
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Order of Washington
* Society of Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia
* Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of
Philadelphia
* National Society of the First Families of DELMARVA
(Founder and
Honorary Governor General)
* National Society of Sons of the American Colonists
* Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum
Bench & Bar
* Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey (former
Board Member)
* National Society Children of the American Revolution
(former Delaware
Senior State President and current Senior State Registrar)
* Military Order of the Crusades
* Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States of America
* National Order of the Blue and Gray
* Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge
* Delaware Genealogical Society (First President)
* George Washington Society (former Board Member)
* Harvard Club of Delaware

Other NotesMr. Neal was listed in the Hereditary Society Blue
Books of the 1990's and descends from King Henry II
Plantagenet. He has authored an unpublished
history and genealogy of 6,000 descendants of John Neal
and Margaret White of Sussex County, Delaware.

As a NSSAR member, he has earned thirty-one (31) Liberty
Medals, five prestigious Florence Kendall Awards and is
a George Washington Fellow.

He is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of the
Temple of Jerusalem and a life member of the Patriotic
Order of the Sons of America.

Mr. Neal is a 32nd Degree Mason, a Knight Templar, a
member of the
York Rite College, and was elected Grand High Priest of
Royal Arch Masons of Delaware. He served as a
Deacon of the Presbyterian Church.

He is a life member of the American Legion and has
served as Post and District Commander and as a member
of the State Executive Committee. He was selected
to be a member of Voiture Nationale.